This just crossed our email inboxes, and we know Bad at Sports has more than a few listeners/readers who are going to be interested in submitting work to this competition. Note the deadline is coming up soon! So read on, and get those slides and jpegs in order.

New American Paintings is a museum-quality, soft-cover art periodical, published bimonthly by The Open Studios Press. Each 184 page volume is a regional exhibition-in-print, selling for $20 at 1,500 bookstores, museum shops and art supply stores nationwide. The books have become periodical resources for collectors and art world professionals.

Competition winners retain all rights to their images and pay nothing to appear in New American Paintings.

Â Now accepting entries from:

IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, and WI

The competitionâ€™s 40 winners will appear in the Aug/Sept 2012 edition of New American Paintings.

Â All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional.